Sinn Féin is a growing force in Irish politics. Now the country's third
largest party, Sinn Féin have been one of the central architects of the
peace process and are increasingly setting the terms of political debate
in Ireland north and south. Despite this, the party remains much
misunderstood and often misrepresented. Sinn Fein and The Politics of
Left Republicanism explores the ideological and organisational origins
of the party, charts their history and recent political development and
assesses their possible futures. Eoin O Broin argues that Sinn Fein is
part of a distinct left-republican tradition in Irish society whose
future lies in the globally resurgent radical democratic left.